Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Information Systems Reengineering (17.IZMO02)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Industrial Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Inženjerstvo informacionih sistema Information-Communication Systems
ECTS	5

The aim of the course is to empower students with knowledge about the legacy information systems, motivs and approaches for their evolution and methods and techniques for information systems reengineering.

Upon completing this course successfully, students will understand basic challenges, concepts and motives for legacy information systems evolution. They will be qualified to evaluate available methods, techniques and tools for legacy information system evolution, in a present context, and to make the adequate choice and to efficiently apply chosen methods, techniques and tools in order to improve legacy information system.

Notion, classification and characteristics of legacy information systems (LIS). Commercial, business and technological motives for LIS evolution (modernization). LIS modernization approaches: migration, package implementation, re-hosting, restructuring, reengineering. Reengineering tasks and lifecycle. Reverse and forward engineering. LIS design reengineering. Maintenance and legacy code improvements. Techniques to support program code understanding. Database reengineering. Logical database structure extraction from database repository. Data mining techniques to extract LIS information: database constraints, business rules and business processes. Conceptualization process. Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM). Technical ADM, application ADM, data ADM. ADM business architectures. ADM standards. Model-driven LIS reengineering. Challenges, concepts, drivers and strategies of LIS integration in the context of LIS reengineering.

Lectures; Tutorials (computer laboratory); Consultations; Individual work on required assignments; Students have to make and to defend an individual term paper. Students are encouraged to communicate, to participate in critical discussions; to work independently and to be actively involved in teaching process.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
W. M. Ulrich, P. Newcomb	Information Systems Transformation Architecture-driven Modernization	2010	Morgan Kaufman	English
Avison, D., Fitzgerald, G.	Information Systems Development : Methodologies, Techniques & Tools	2006	McGraw Hill Education, London	English
Favre, L.	Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies: Strategic Directions and System Evolution	2010	Engineering Science Reference, Hershey	English
S. W. Ambler, P. J. Sadalage	Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design	2011	Addison-Wesley	English
Crnkovic, Ivica Asklund, Ulf	Implementing and integrating product data management and software configuration management	2003	Artech House	English
R. Valvedere, M. R. Talla	Information Systems Reengineering for Modern Business Systems	2012	IGI Global	English
J. Fong	Information Systems Reengineering and Integration	2006	Springer	English
Tripathy P., Naik K.	Software Evolution and Maintenance – a Practitioner’s Approach	2015	Wiley	English